Pauline Matthews (Kiki Dee) Quotes
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
-
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
-
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
-
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
-
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
-
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
-
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
-
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
-
My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
-
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
-
Well, my brother started acting before I did.
-
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
-
My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
-
I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.
-
If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that!
-
I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.
-
I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.
-
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
